A Customs & Border Protection (CPB) report, released in response to EFF’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the agency, shows CBP has considered adding weapons to its domestic Predator drones.
The report, titled “Concept of Operations for CBP’s Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System”
and submitted to Congress on June 29, 2010 shows that, not only is the
agency planning to sharply increase the number of Predator drones it
flies and the amount of surveillance it conducts by 2016 (detailed
further in a separate blog post tomorrow), but it has considered
equipping its Predators with “non-lethal weapons designed to immobilize” targets of interest.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/customs-border-protection-considered-weaponizing-drones
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/customs-border-protection-considered-weaponizing-drones
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